Hi all,

DS is 19 months and for the past two weeks has been waking at night up to 5 times for a breastfeed. Before this he would sometimes wake once a night, when I would bring him into our bed, sometimes he would have a feed but most of the time just go straight back to sleep. Lately he will go to bed at around 8 but by 10 he is awake asking for milk, so I bring him into bed with us and throughout the night will feed feed feed!! I don't really mind too much but I am getting a bit exhausted as his day sleeps aren't going too well either. He used to have a good 2 hours after lunch but now most of the time I am lucky to get 20 minutes out of him. He still definately needs his nap though as by 4/5 o'clock he is a bit of a monster. Also, he is breastfeeding up to 5 times during the day as well and constantly going to the fridge and pantry asking for "more".

I do give one cup of cow's milk a day but it doesn't lessen the breastfeeds at all and TBH I don't really like to give him too much cow's milk because if he is going to have milk I would prefer it be mine.

So I'm just wondering if this could be another growth spurt or has anyone else had this with their toddler? Could it just be a stage???

TIA